Quotes - Ashby Dodd (ashbydodd) Showing 1-30 of 350

#1

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”
― Katharine Weber, The Music Lesson

tags: life, loss

2020 likes

#2

“Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
― Madeleine de Scudéry

1291 likes

#3

“I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”
― Nadine Gordimer

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#4

“The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”
― Beryl Bainbridge

941 likes

#5

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

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#6

“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

1319 likes

#7

“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

878 likes

#8

“People move around so much in the world, things get lost.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

tags: life, lost, people, travel, world

80 likes

#9

“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

tags: behavior, evil, personality

450 likes

#10

“Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

tags: perfection

999 likes

#11

“Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

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#12

“I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

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#13

“A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

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#14

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

2265 likes

#15

“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
― Mo Yan

1160 likes

#16

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
― Jose Marti

1730 likes

#17

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery

3953 likes

#18

“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
― Ira Glass

1541 likes

#19

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

tags: existence, truth

4927 likes

#20

“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

1097 likes

#21

“There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star

tags: life-s-journey, poetry-quotes, solitude

1469 likes

#22

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
― John Updike

tags: to-keep-up-ur-dreams-_

2228 likes

#23

“Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

215 likes

#24

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

14696 likes

#25

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

176982 likes

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